Tag: 8th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

Henry N. Livermore

Henry N. Livermore

Henry Newton Livermore was a resident of Lebanon, Connecticut on August 29, 1861 when he enlisted as a Corporal in Co. D of the 8th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He died March 31, 1862.

 He was born August 26, 1841 in East Windsor, Connecticut to Aaron Russell and Mary Gay (Skinner) Livermore. In the 1850 U.S. census in Mansfield, he is a 9 year old in the household of A. W. Livermore.

His father was pastor of the Congregational Church in North Mansfield, now Storrs Congregational Church, from 1843 through 1858. In February 1860 he became pastor of the Goshen Congregational Church in Lebanon.

Henry Livermore is buried at Roanoke Island, North Carolina but there is a headstone for Henry on his family monument at the New Storrs Cemetery in Mansfield.

Edgar A. Lockwood

Edgar A. Lockwood

Edgar A. Lockwood was a resident of Lebanon on September 10, 1861 when he enlisted as a Private in Co. D of the 8th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; he was promoted to Corporal on October 1, 1863 and discharged on December 12, 1865.

He was born about 1842 in Lebanon, Connecticut to Alfred and Mary Jane (Abel) Lockwood. In the 1860 U.S. census in Lebanon, he is an 18 year old in the household of Alfred Lockwood. After the Civil War he moved to Mansfield and was living there by the 1870 U.S. census, working as a farm laborer. Edgar Lockwood married Mary Julia Warren on January 23, 1864 in Mansfield and second, Ellen M. (Nichols) Perkins, the widow of Mansfield Civil War soldier, James Perkins. Children from the second marriage include: Lucy Jennie Lockwood, born about 1868; Edith Adella Lockwood, born about 1873 and Edgar A. Lockwood, born about 1875.

Edgar A. Lockwood died January 17, 1879 and is buried at the New Mansfield Center Cemetery in Mansfield.

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